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Chinese satellite reentry trajectory.
China s first ever space laboratory tiangong 1 will fall to earth within the next week and weather permitting you may be able to see it from the ground.
Indicates the amount in kilometers existing between the observer and the satellite.
As the re entry time approaches the range of re entry times will narrow.
The tiangong 1 station will mostly burn up as it plummets through earth s atmosphere.
China s space program remains highly secretive and some experts have complained that a lack of information about tiangong 1 s design made it harder to predict what might happen upon its re entry.
Altitude is the.
Period is the time that the satellite takes to complete an orbit around the earth counted from perigee to perigee.
The 19 6 ton 17 800 kilogram body of chinese rocket slammed into the planet s atmosphere today may 11.
Some fragments could survive the fiery reentry but experts say the risk to humans on the ground is small.
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It was the biggest such incident since 1991.
Washington nasa administrator jim bridenstine criticized china may 15 for the really dangerous reentry of a large rocket stage earlier in the week that led to debris landing in africa.